USER:DMARTINAUS

Skyline of Austin, Texas

Skyline of Austin Texas. Scroll right or left.

Austex is the user name for a writer, published author, and individual from Austin, Texas who commonly edits on a wide variety of Austin, Round Rock and other articles throughout Travis and Williamson counties.

As an editing courtesy, please place all comments or feedback

on the "Discussion" page only and not on this page.

As of July 11, 2010 my signature changed to: Austex • Talk

For my own editorial remarks I now use "North Texas Green" color #059033

Which apparently originated HERE

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This user can be reached by email.

PR

Works in Public Relations and Public Affairs (member PRSA)

PR

Is a PR specialist in Reputation and Crisis Management

Writer

Is a professional author, writer or journalist

This user has published a book.

Edit to ∞!

This user has a tendency to over- .

This user has made over
4,000 edits to Wikipedia.

This user has uploaded 34 images to Wikipedia.

This user is proud to be a native Texan.

This user lives in Austin

This user supports and attended the University of Texas at Austin.

UT

Hook 'em Horns!

This user collects ancient Texas artifacts

This user collects pre-statehood Texas maps, currency and memorbilia.

Texas was its own independent country until it was annexed into the United States in 1845.

Pages that I have created

User:Austex

Texas Chainsaw House

Antlers Hotel (Kingsland, Texas)

La Frontera (Round Rock, Texas)

Texas Government Newsletter

Pages that I have very substantially edited

Round Rock, Texas

Dell Diamond

Georgetown, Texas

Williamson County, Texas

Kingsland, Texas

Community Impact Newspaper

My subpages

User:Austex/Sig

User:Austex/Sandbox

User:Austex/Archive

User:Austex/Archive2

User:Austex/Archive3

User:Austex/Text of Articles

User:Austex/Special Page/Article Texts

User:Austex/Donald G. Martin

User:Austex/Donald G. Martin (Austin Texas)

User:Austex/Userboxes

User:Austex/Antlers Hotel (Kingsland Texas)

User Talk:Austex/Paulajakobs

User Talk:Austex/Archive

User Talk:Austex/Archive1

User Talk:Austex/Archive2

User Talk:Austex/Archive3

User Talk:Austex/Citations

Current Projects

1) I am currently making regular edits to these and other Central Texas articles:

Austin, Texas

Greater Austin

Round Rock, Texas

Antlers Hotel

Georgetown,Texas

Travis County, Texas

Williamson County, Texas

Community Impact Newspaper

2) Developing and maintaining several articles on "alternative Wiki" sites

because they were otherwise deemed not notable enough for Wikipedia.

Just ask if you'd like to see them and I will give you the url

At least one is being extensively re-edited from scratch, with a neutral point of view,

for possible re-submittal to Wikipedia.

3) Experimenting with creating new userboxes and other items on Wikipedia in the sandbox

4) Experimenting with text boxes with varying background colors

Edit history

Here is my most recent personal edit history

Here are my Total edits and pie chart of edits.

Active peer reviews

Wikipedia:Peer review/Williamson County, Texas/archive1

Wikipedia:Peer review/Community Impact Newspaper/archive1

My Interests

Personal interests

My kids and family, Writing (I am a published author), Austin media relations, reading, my Kindle, my new iPad, Lake Travis, sailing, collecting Texas pre-state Texas memorabilia, collecting fossils, collecting postcards, travel (especially Cozumel, Mexico), my work, and ocassionally editing on Wikipedia on a very part time basis here and there as time permits.

Business interests

Writing, public affairs, communications, public relations, crisis management, crisis communications, reputation management, issues management and reputton managment, and Internet reputation management. My new Internet reputation management site is [ [1]]

Barnstars I have been awarded

		The Resilient Barnstar
		For tireless work improving the Round Rock, Texas page to create the best possible article. Iluvrr ( talk) 14:40, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

Citation Formats for Copying

How to create a Talkback {{talkback|User Talk:Austex}} -- or -- {{talkback|User Talk:Austex/section}} on the respondents talk page.

(Note: Pre-prepared citations from local books and resources re Round Rock, Georgetown and Williamson County are are available at: [User:Austex/Sandbox]

Wikipedia has an automatic "citation generator" located HERE

You just fill in the blanks and it generates a relatively decent fully formatted citation.

Or feel free to copy and paste the following citation formats into your article and then fill in the blanks:

WEB CITATION: . . . <ref>{{cite web |url= |title= |author= |date= |work= |publisher= |accessdate= }}</ref>

NEWS CITATION: . . . <ref>{{cite news |title= |first= | last= |coauthors= |newspaper= |date= |url= |accessdate= }}</ref>

BOOK CITATION: . . . <ref>{{cite book |title= |last= |first= |authorlink= |coauthors= |year= |publisher= |location= |isbn= |page= |pages= |url= |ISBN= |accessdate= }}</ref>

(Note: On books the ISBN number is important but can use either the 10 or 13 digit ISBN number)

CITE JOURNAL: . . .<ref>{{Cite journal| last= | first = | authorlink= | coauthors= | title= | journal = | volume= | issue= | pages= | publisher= | location= | date= | url= | issn= | doi= | id= | accessdate = }}</ref>

FREEFORM CITATION . . .<ref>{{Citation| last = | first = | author-link = | last2 = | first2 = | author2-link = | title = | date = | year = | url = | accessdate = }}</ref>

For more examples of citation templates from Wikipedia go HERE

Article texts site

User:Austex/Special Page/Article_Texts is used to place full articles or portions of articles that are only available through paid archive subscriptions. In such cases the actual text is transposed to this page.

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Use of COLOR

To simplify, hit edit and then copy the code below and insert your color # (don't forget to use the # sign before the actual color number):

Bold colored text #800080 goes here

Here is how the code actually looks in edit format:

<span style="color:#800080">''' Bold colored text #800080 goes here''' </span>

Translates as: Bold colored text #800080 goes here </spa

For a complete list of all available colors you can use click: HERE

For my own editorial remarks I use "North Texas Green" color #059033

I copy this code: ' text here '

Formatting

For large type use {{{ 1 }}} with <span style="font-size:large">{{{ 1 }}}</span>

Formatting Cheatsheet

For carriage returns and spacing, use: <br> for line break; or <\nl> for new line; or {{pad|4em}} where the number is an amount of length in px.

Code for creating a box (change color code #FFAD2 for a different background color):

{{-}}<div align="center"> {| style="border-bottom: black 1px solid; text-align: center; border-left: black 1px solid; background-color: #d8ffd8 ; border-top: black 1px solid; border-right: black 1px solid" class="FCK__ShowTableBorders" width="30%" |- ! Text goes here, this background color is #D8FFD8, and the box size is 30% wide. |} </div> :::Translates as:

Text goes here, this background color is #d8ffd8, and the box size is 30% wide.

For conflicts of interest edits use template: {{Request edit}}

For leaving a talkback note use: {{talkback|User or talk name|Section}}

Userboxes Created

See Sandbox for a list an variety of backgrounds.

Cool Tools

GeoCoder for finding coordinates

ISBN Cross Checker

Edit Counter

Is X an Admin?

Pages created by X

Userbox Maker

Citation Generator

Davtra's Cheatsheet of Codes and Templates

Gizmos

Common Sense Tool for creating categories for articles or photos

What Links Here?

Photos

Special fun images

For something fun, this

animated image is created

with this file:

Image:Bouncywikilogo.gif

Also for your enjoyment:

File:Newtons_cradle_animation_book_2.gif

License corrections

~~File:Packsaddle.jpg . . .no license~~ Deleted Relicensed.

File:Antlers caboosses.jpg . . . Lic by Dennis Thomas 2/10/11 by mail No action by OTRS

~~File:Dell Diamond DM.jpg . . .~~ License provided but missing

~~Note: Garfield McConico image: File:McConico.jpg has been deleted by OTRS July 28, 2010.~~

New Replacement Image instead: Ticket#2011081610019755 File:McConico2.jpg

Note: Austin book cover scan.jpg has been cleared by OTRS

Images I have uploaded

Below is list of all images I have personally up-loaded in order to keep track of the filenames. Some of these are filed in Wikimedia Commons and are used on other Wiki-related sites that connect to Mikimedia Commons (even through not used in a Wikipedia article). Where additonal licensing was neeeded it is shown below.

Simply click on any photo to obtain the File:name for use in articles and all additional data and licenses.

So, in no particular order: